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OUR PERSONAL GODS AND THE PRICE WE PAY 

An Open Letter to "Producers;" with Special Plea to 
Our Mothers and Sisters. 

By "Producers" is meant all those people who are in 
any manner engaged in adding to the sum total of human 
physical, mental, moral and spiritual uplift, and happi- 
ness. 

The "Producers" Religion. 

A natural religion: a scientific material, a scientific 
moral and spiritual religion. 

All "Producers" have always been members and all 
non-producers become members as they become "Pro- 
ducers." 

Our sphere of positive active influence will take in 
the whole of political and productive economy and all 
other subjects pertaining to life and living and the en- 
joyment thereof. 

We propose using every conceivable means that will 
insure our Nation's resources being righteously and scien- 
tifically used for the benefit of all our Nation's inhabi- 
tants; whereby we may establish a progressive, abiding, 
peaceful civilization and a constant increasing physical, 
mental and moral efficiency. 



"Our Personal Gods and the Price We Pay" 



ECONOMIC FREEDOM OF WOMEN 

VIA 

The "Producer's" Religion 

WILL INSURE 

National Peace and Progress 



AUTHOR: 
J. DEARNESS BOLEY 



(Copyrighted 1918) 



1918 

WASHINGTON PRINTING CO., Inc. 

SEATTLE, U.S.A. 



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PURPORT. ^ 



This letter was inspired and written absolutely and un- 
reservedly in the interest of human service and social 
uplift — wholly devoid of any monetary or other gainful 
ends whatsoever. 

Moreover it will be confined to the fewest pages pos- 
sible in order that the least outlay will be required to pro- 
cure it. 

No statements will appear on religious questions but 
such as can be sustained by volumns of proof. 

To the Socialists and all other units of "Producers:" 

When our society reaches the hightest plane now set 
for it — its wants and needs will be more numerous than 
they are now, and those living will be more anxious to 
attain them, it never can become static and continue to 
live. 

They, who can give up essentral liberty to obtain a 
little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. 
— (Benjaman Franklin.) 

The man who will not investigate both sides of a 
question is dishonest.— (Lincoln.) 

The Christian or other supernatural religion is the op- 
pression of the soul and bondage to the mind. The Do- 
minion of darkness. — (Leo. Tolstoi.) 

No man or woman can allienate themselves from the 
HUMAN MASS and attain happiness or soul develop- 
ment. So Asoka, the Buddhist saw and said: "I will not 
accept Paradise while one remains in misery." 

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Economic Freedom of Women via The 

"Producers" Religion Will Insure 

National Peace and Progress 

The Duty of All Now and After the War. 

While the President and government heads are work- 
ing overtime in a laudable effort to so adjust our whole 
social organization that the greatest possible physical 
vigor and productive efficiency may be obtained in every 
unit as a war measure; it behoves every person of both 
sexes, who by age or otherwise are debarred from the 
front, in addition to doing our whole duty in sustaining 
the government — to just as fearlessly and honestly as our 
boys in the trenches — do our utmost in an effort to learn 
what is true, that we may do what is right and "think, 
act and work together" to continue, increase, and main- 
tain and firmly establish for all itme the very great and 
much needed improvements in our social organization 
the government is installing, and which will be bought 
with so many precious lives and such vast treasure. 

President Wilson is conceded to be by all sane na- 
tions "The world's greatest living statesman.** He has 
been that dating from his inauguration, and also Ameri- 
cas greatest President since Lincoln. No man in the his- 
tory of the world has been called upon to make deci- 
sions — over night we might say — so hinging on world 
progress or retrogression. 



4 THE "PRODUCERS" RELIGION IS THE KEY 

If such a fortunate circumstance happens that he be 
permitted a third term, and the "Socialist Party" — all of 
the "producers" at least — do not vote for him, we must 
conclude that it is not social reform they want, but creed 
socialism. President Wilson and his advisers prior to the 
stress of the war had given the "producers" more social- 
ism and reforms for the "Producers," and more democra- 
tic consideration than all former presidents since Lincoln, 
and the best way to prevent a reaction is to give him 
a life term. 

Possibilities. 

Firmly believing that this world epidemic of death and 
destruction is the direct result of the mental "slackness" 
of the German people in permitting their Kaiser to subor- 
dinate and control their mind forces; and that all un- 
civilizing corroding influences, whether international, na- 
tional, communal or personal, may be overcome and even- 
tually prevented by individual and collective thot and 
effort. 

Further, sincerely believing it to be the most urgent 
duty of every mature mind of both sexes — who by age 
or otherwise are debarred from the trenches — to "think, 
act and work together" deliberately, and unceasingly, and 
on constructive lines. 

Because — in addition to doing all we can to help our 
Government win the war, we must be prepared to handle 
after war problems, which will be of so vital and grave a 
nature that they will strike and strike hard and deep at 
the very fundamentals of our deplorably autocratized 
Democracy, necessitating foundation changes that will tax 
all our efforts to work out peaceful methods of solution. 



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The Paradox 

It will require quick mental preparation of both sexes 
if votes are to avail, because the "Producers" altho pos- 
sessed with full power to serve themselves, and in doing 
so, advance the best interest of our Nation, have never 
learned to vote collectively for their own interests; and 
this letter is being written in an endeavor to lay bare, so 
that we may all perceive, the social and other causes 
which functionate like the "castes of India" to keep the 
"Producers," the great majority, and their product con- 
tinually at the mercy and in the service of the non-pro- 
ducing, unscrupulous few. 

A Base for Peace. 

There never has been an enduring peaceful civiliza- 
tion established — or obviously it would be in existence 
now. There never will be a peace base formed till the 
individual conscience produces a world conscience that 
will dethrone all the commercialized lies and vices of 
supernatural personal gods and their ego-manicial re- 
ligion and their source, and places truth, virtue, justice 
and our liberators and industrious labor on the thrones 
of the world, thereby complying with the decree of God, 
the Cosmic Altruism the Spirit of the Universe. 

Which must become a fact before an abiding, peace- 
ful, progressive civilization can be had. As well try to 
turn back the sun in its course; as well try to prevent its 
rays from producing evaporation and precipitation where- 
by it fructifies the earth and all life upon it; as to try and 
prevent the "Producers" from controlling and enjoying 
their product. And so long as the Altruistic Spirit of the 
Universe continues to supply the great throbbing, yearn- 



6 THE "PRODUCERS" RELIGION IS THE KEY 

ing, sea deep, world-wide loving heart of "MOTHER" 
with life, will the struggle go on. 

An Abiding Peace. 

An abiding peaceful society will be possible when it 
is recognized and conceded and legislated for according- 
ly, that humanity is the most sacred product of God. 
And honestly laboring to sustain, maintain, and uplift the 
human family is by God's decree the highest and most 
noble calling of man. And when it is conceded that 
"Mother" is the queen and sourse, and by God's de- 
cree, His viceroy of all human life on this earth, and 
should by that token and must be Queen and Gods vice- 
roy of the environment of her life producing, infant nour- 
ishing and child educating labor, which per se includes 
moral, mental and resourse dictation in all legislation. 

Then will be possible a democracy of the greatest 
good to all, and women become economically free. 

Then will the budding woman be recognized and so 
prized as the most wonderous of all the wonders of life, 
and God's fairest and most sacred flower, one that has 
taken Him untold millions of years of time and His apex 
efforts to produce. 

Being economically free as God intended, she will 
be free to follow His decree in choosing her mate, and the 
family of intellectually governed humanity be assured, 
and the anticipated brute socialization of women buried 
forever. 

God and Divine Rights. 

Our concept of God, of Providence; of Divine rights, 
and our duty in this world and concerning a supposed 
next, as expressed in the variegated term religion, the in- 



TO THE ECONOMIC FREEDOM OF WOMEN 7 

fluence and consequence of which so thoroly permeates 
the whole fabric of our individual and social life, as it 
should and always will do, that any survey of our social 
status, must, to be of any value, take the form almost 
exclusively of natural religion versus supernatural religion. 
With the economic feature the casus belli unavoidably 
subordinated. 

We are not sure that the cosmic spirit which has evolv- 
ed and now controls this vast univesre of which our Solar 
System is but a very small part — is conscious of it all 
as we are conscious — by reason of our own and race ex- 
perience. 

We are not sure that the force we call God, which is 
the Altruism, the religion which is the evolution — from 
chaos to cosmos — is grandly conscious of the whole uni- 
verse — and has a why and wherefore in it all; that the 
units which form the whole are conscious — as the billions 
of cells which make up and form our physical bodies and 
mental faculties obviously are; neither are we sure that 
this uplifting, compelling, sustaining, inexorable and im- 
mutable force has an object, a goal in view. 

We are not sure that we, as God's family, and the 
apex of sentient life, to whom has been given infinite, 
full, and therefore absolute control of our present life, and 
as to how we shall live it mutually; are a part of any plan 
anent that object or goal in view, but of this we are sure, 
if there is a plan and a goal, that plan is a ship with all 
that is good in humanity — at least — aboard, and all de- 
stined impartially and absolutely by that preconception, 
to the same ultimate goal. 

Of this we are sure that the forces which we do not 
understand, the occult that multiplys in exact raito to the 



8 THE "PRODUCERS" RELIGION IS THE KEY 

evolution and exercises of our thots and observations 
which we call God, and refer to in the personal term He 
(as a language necessity) — looses no reverence or sub- 
lime respect when addressed by a true Altruistic free 
thinker. 

On the other hand the reverence for God is inexpres- 
sibly, immeasurably enhanced, and culminates in an in- 
tense altruism, and exalts humanity with the mother and 
child first — next to God, which obviously in turn next 
exalts the "Producers' ' — which all should be — and their 
economic evolution, which is God's decree and the most 
exalted spiritual religion. Supernatural religion is a man 
made decree which believes in living on the product of 
other's labor; produced by others, and is, after all that 
can be said in its favor; a ways and means of supporting 
the few idlers at the expense of the many workers when it 
should be all for all. 

Of this we are beyond a possible doubt also sure, 
that God's laws of nature which make up our environ- 
ment, are absolute, fixed, immutable, with God as their 
Author of necessity impartial and unconcerned as to 
whether we conform our lives to those laws and live, or 
vice versa, it is inconceivable how those laws could main- 
tain stability, and be vacillating, be partial and impartial, 
consistent and inconsistent at one and the same time, con- 
stancy is sine qua non and unthinkable any otherwise and 
remain cosmic, to illustrate: the sun, the dynamic and 
potential energiser of all life on this planet is fixed in its 
course and cannot waver; the earth, which responds to the 
sun's energy, completing the conditions of life, also is 
fixed in its course. And we cannot conceive of the sun 
selecting spots upon which to shine; or the earth in any 



TO THE ECONOMIC FREEDOM OF WOMEN 9 

manner refusing to respond, or the rain exerting itself 
partially. 

Divine Rights 

Obviously, and most logically, if there is no special 
Providence or Divine rights either necessary or possible 
for the earth, there can be none necessary for the earth's 
product, including humanity, nor does natural religion, 
the * 'United Economic Altruocracy" require any special 
or personal impartial Providence or Divine rights of any 
kind, but to supernatural religions it is sine qua non. 

Moreover, supernatural religion is the direct anti- 
thesis of good and is the very illogical and unwarranted 
insane chaos that is now the worlds awful climax — and we 
trust — last tragedy. 

All individual special Providence and Devine rights 
becomes ego-maniacism, because all our egos and our 
freedom of its assertion we owe to those who would not 
become celibates or extreme asceties; to those who * 'es- 
caped" and lived natural lives the "Producers.'* And 
from the efforts of the same natural religion of human 
love and labor of the "Producers" of the future will come 
all good. 

The Inspiration. 

God the cosmic spirit of the universe has supplied us 
with every thing but experience which — axomatically — 
must be acquired. He has provided an environment of 
inexorable, impartial, inexhaustable abundence of love 
and goodness for all, and has given us in a mutual sense 
infinite and absolute power of control. He could not 
give us, nor do we need more power than what we have, 
and once we learn to appropriate that abundance justly 
and in an ever increasing scientific altruistic manner, life 



10 THE "PRODUCERS" RELIGION IS THE KEY 

may be one long rich experience of love labor and en- 
joyment, with an ever enlarging field to supply an ever 
increasing capacity for physical, mental and spiritual hap- 
piness. 

Natural religion is the science of agreeing to agree; 
the world's greatest need. Supernatural religion is its 
antithesis — which obviously we have. 

Our Tacit Understanding. 

God, the universe, this earth and all that therein is, 
for all mankind now and forever. 

Guided by all the scientific researches back into the 
past, and all the scientific observations of the present, 
added to all the scientific prognosis of the future, leads 
us to assume that we do not know that another conscious 
existence awaits us after this. 

But this we do know from the same evidence, that 
the more good we do here, the more altruistic we live 
this life, the better prepared we will be for another, which 
axiom we accept as the decree of God, as the only way 
to develope the soul, the only way to prepare for another 
life; and the apex wisdom to guide us to the full and ut- 
most enjoyment in this. All our efforts to peer into a 
future existence are speculative, conceded by science. 
Our Aspiration. 

All the nation's resources for all the nation's inhabi- 
tants, with all the people individually and collectively, 
mutually and honestly striving to attain that goal, to win 
the war now and for all the people afterwards. 

Our Slogan. 

All that's good equally for all, and all that's bad for 
none. 

Our Creed : Is to live and work according to the un- 



TO THE ECONOMIC FREEDOM OF WOMEN 11 

written inexorable decree, the Altruism of God — as ex- 
pressed in the sunshine and the fructifying response of 
the earth in the sustaining of life — for human evolution. 

The Ideal. 
In an ideal world the individual would contribute all 
his work, all his thought, all his devotion, all himself to 
the common good, and receive back from the common 
store whatever he needed for life — comfort, happiness 
and self development — and no more. This would be so 
because in an ideal world the individual would be com- 
pletely unselfish, perfectly considerate of his neighbor, 
utterly devoted to the good of all. "Independent" Maga- 
zine, Dec. 8, 1917. 

From Egoism to Altruism. 

Human society is in transit from ego-maniacism and the 
insane autocratic rule of special privilege and brute might 
by the nonproducer for the benefit of the few, to that 
of one by the "Producers*' of the "Producers*' for the 
"Producers;" a Democracy for the good of ALL which 
can be more definitely defined by the term "Altruo- 
cracy:" as exprssed in the ebove "Ideal," and the more 
rapidly we conform to that "Ideal" the quicker we will 
turn our savage inspired present charnel house of death 
and destruction into a heaven of peace, love and happi- 
ness. The writer takes the position that all that stands 
in the path of society in its transit from the charnel house 
to the heaven of peace and love, whether individual or 
organized, is insanity and must give way at any cost, in 
order that the goal of love, peace and happiness may be 
striven for. 

Any unbiased mind who will sufficiently study the situ- 
ation will conclude that every institution in America and 



12 THE •PRODUCERS" RELIGION IS THE KEY 

the world that is dependent upon the "Producers" and 
not self sustaining by producing, is in the path of "tran- 
sit" and must be replaced with self-supporting ones; this 
includes all creeds that expound salvation by belief, all 
fraternal orders, charity, etc. 

Our ideal may be best illustrated by a glance at the 
principle of the evolution of animal life. 

Evolution. 

Supernatural religion — refering in this case to Chris- 
tianity — would have us believe that Divine Fiat creation 
— a kind of a miracle process was responsible for the life 
on this earth, but as it is utterly impossible for the mind 
of man to give any other definition to the word creation 
than as the result of organized — simple to the complex — 
cell effort, we must use the word creation in that sense. 

From the simple to the complex is man's plan; what 
was up-to-date 2,000 years ago will not do now. The 
means of transit then, was very simple in view of the 
automobile of today, but if anyone should make the claim 
that there could be no more improvements made in the 
automobile they would not be taken seriously. 

From the simple to he complex is also our Creator's 
plan. The continuous adjustment of internal relations to 
external relations (Spencer) two cells were more efficient 
in uniting to procure food as it floated to them in the 
water — and many, up to a certain limit, more efficient 
as there would be a limit to length of the first line, second 
lines would form and so on specializations would com- 
mence — crude means of reaching out, and for propelling 
would be formed, which would be improved and later, on 
the land become legs, and other specializations would 
come naturally, all conforming to the two desires: food 



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and reproduction. Food the first law, some one to share 
it the second ; love of life, mutual help and fellowship. 

Our bodies represent the standard of perfection of the 
present, and expresses the accumulated experience of the 
adjustments necessary in conforming to the ever increas- 
ing complexity of the past, all experience and only pos- 
sible by time, and our brain power is the result of re- 
cording experiences, the efforts of the past, in procuring 
food and insuring reproduction. 

Just as it does not belittle the automobile for us to 
know that the efforts of numerous men extending over 
many hundreds of years have been put forth to produce 
it, it does not lessen the importance of manknid nor our 
Creator's efforts to know that it has taken the Supreme 
Architect of this vast universe many millions of years to 
produce the human forms and give those beings the 
infinite thought powers and physical possibilities they now 
have. 

It would be just as illogical to claim that man's physi- 
cal and mental powers would not, under both favorable 
and unfavorable conditions, be increased, as to say the 
automobile would not be made to comply with the future 
requirements. 

In a mutual sense we have absolute dominion over 
our destiny here on the earth. We could not have — 
nor do we need any more power; God could not give us 
more. We may use that power in means to destroy our- 
selves or we may agree and enjoy life. 

Mother love and male brute force is the only con- 
ceivable plan whereby animal life in the wild state could 
have been evolved. 

The intelligence of man, the reasoning power enabling 



14 THE "PRODUCERS" RELIGION IS THE KEY 

him to view his actions of the past and pass upon them in 
considering his future course of procedure, was intended 
by God to be used in an altrustic sense, thereby doing 
away with the egoistic brute force. He has given us in- 
finite brain possibilities and also infinite physical perfect- 
ing powers thru our minds, but He could not give us ex- 
perience; this we must acquire, and this world war is 
teaching us the experience — that the insane egoism of 
divine rights of kings and their twin offspring and pro- 
tectors, supernatural religion and selfish greed is all one 
thing; that it belongs to a savage bygone age and must 
all go. 

Mankind Paramount. 

We are justified in concluding that mankind is the 
most important, and altogether the most wonderful living 
sentient form of life that the Great Architect of the uni- 
verse has yet produced, and we must by that token look 
upon all human life as the most sacred thing in the world, 
and the next most sacred thing is the labor that man puts 
forth to sustain life in the perfecting process of human 
uplift and social evolution. 

To comprehend the second unpardonable sin against 
God and crime against humanity, that of diverting, for 
selfish purposes, His great goodness from the one pro- 
ducing it and whom He intended it should sustain and 
develop. Physically, mentally and spiritually, is impos- 
sible. Then what are we to say of a man or set of men 
who would deliberately put forth concerted efforts to 
control, for selfish ends, not alone the minds of the ma- 
ture, but even the plastic minds of the children! actually 
trying to abort and destroy the most supreme loving ef- 
forts and purpose of the Creator, by which He produced 



TO THE ECONOMIC FREEDOM OF WOMEN 15 

our thought power that has taken untold centuries to ac- 
quire — absolutely the only distinction between mankind 
and the brute; which, if permitted, would reduce us again 
to the Dark Ages, when the human reason was almost 
dethroned and men and women were degraded to in- 
conceivable and indiscribable levels below the brute. 
The Purpose of Life. 

The purpose of life is the continuous upward devel- 
opement of it according to the will and pleadings of our 
Creator, in whom we truly do live, move and have our 
being, who in His infinite wisdom; and by His loving all 
pervading, compelling, upliftnig force has so constituted 
us that we most perfectly enjoy our individual life, when 
we do our utmost to increase the sum total of human 
development and logically happiness. 
Our Cell Altruocracy. 

The Supreme Altru Spirit has constructed our bodies 
and our intellectual faculties out of billions of His own 
cells, every one of which is a specialized general in his 
chosen division, and if given the proper nourishment by 
our food to select from, will work without ceasing in both 
renewing itself and our life. Each one of these billions 
of cells is apparently as conscious and determined to do 
or die, trying their utmost to keep us in perfect health; 
each of these millions of interdependent cells in each of 
the interdependent divisions, actually, fully conscious of 
and strictly adhering to the rights of others — make up the 
most wonderful trancendent, altruistic society — that is as 
yet quite beyond our conception, and leads us to exclaim 
truly by searching do we find out God! (See William 
Hannah Thompson in "What is Physical Life, Its Origin 
and Nature/') 



16 THE "PRODUCERS" RELIGION IS THE KEY 

This most wonderful God cell Altrustic society by 
which animal and brain life is formed and maintained is 
cited here: to show us that by organiznig human society 
after this plan is the will of the Supreme Altruist, and the 
ultimate ideal for human society, and should, must and 
will be a spiritual asperation and a unique inspiration that 
will never wane; which brings forth the question, how we 
may best immitate this organization? We have the 
power and we must so will. 

As man has advanced in thought he has outgrown the 
numerous gods of primitive man; he has also discarded all 
supernatural gods, which were never anything but a re- 
plica of the personal greed of the egoist presenting them; 
he has also come to look upon a personal protecting 
Providence as untenable, illogical, and wholly egoistical 
and at variance with natural law, all of which has given 
him the true assurance of an absolute Providence; that the 
loving Creator has provided for all of the human race — 
"God's Family." 

We should reverance God as the Great, Loving, 
Supreme Altruism that is absolutely and impartially and 
continuously uplifting us to a higher plane of develop- 
ment in order that we may overcome egoism and form 
an altruistic society, as is displayed in the society of God- 
cells that make up our physical and mental organizations, 
in which there is not either war or strife, master or slave, 
or other discording or corroding elements, but instead 
there is one single purpose of the many billions of cells, 
which is being carried out with an intensity of fidelity — 
and which culminates in the one all-pervading spiritual 
desire of up, up and on up to greater hights of perfection 
and infinitum. 



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Excepting our Creator in this true light as the Supreme 
"Producer" of all love and goodness, which he has im- 
partially without stint provided for all; wholly and for- 
ever sets aside the ancient superstition — the fear of God 
— which our savage ancestors, even as now, exacted from 
those they wished to keep in slavery to their own selfish 
greed, by keeping alive the fears of the ghosts or manes 
or Jehovah's of their dead kings. 

We can help God only as we conform our lives to 
natural laws, and assist others in the service of human 
efficiency, happiness and social uplifting evolution. So 
the one thing that is especially our business is to search 
and find out God and obey His will as expressed in the 
impartial and inexorable and immutable laws of nature; 
whereby we may assist in perfecting humanity which will 
be a continuous process. Our physical powers may be 
enhanced to any extent we wish, and our mental facul- 
ties; our thot powers may be increased beyond our pres- 
ent most vivid imaginations, and even then we will but 
have commenced to think and to realize that our joys 
increase as the thot powers extend. 

Reciprocally God has given us dominion over the 
earth and all that therein is. He has decreed woman the 
first law of life and the paramount wonder of all His ef- 
forts in sentient life, and exalted her above all other 
forms of life. He gave the primal mother cell the power 
to reproduce her kind alone, and later helped her fashion 
the male to her liking — in order to insure differentiation 
in her work — obviously she was more than successful — 
and in both of whom he has planted His one overruling 
purpose: that of renewing the race in their offspring. He 
has given to the mother and the father the power to ex- 



18 THE "PRODUCERS" RELIGION IS THE KEY 

press His — most apparently greatest desire; that of peop- 
ling the earth with an Altruistic race possessing infinite 
possibilities of development. 

He has so constituted woman that her most intense 
enjoyment is realized when caring for and educating her 
children, and in proportion as she is enabled to know and 
to employ every scientific aid is her enjoyment increased. 
Father in his natural state, is so ordained that his greatest 
and fullest enjoyment in life is attained only when he is 
wholly engaged in providing for the mother and their off- 
spring first, and others according to his ability. God 
never intended him for any other purpose, than to do 
and die, if need be, in providing and protecting the moth- 
ers and children, which insures him the fullest life and 
most enjoyable existence. 

The Most Enjoyable Society. 

Again, just as the physical and mental powers of 
mankind are most potent and enjoyable when all the cells 
of all the divisions are in a prime normal condition; so is 
the society of humanity most ennobling and enjoyable, 
just in proportion as all of its units are in the most ad- 
vanced mutual state. God ordained — and obviously also 
to us is the fact: that the larger the aggregation of human 
society we are enabled to Altruize — even to the fullness 
of the earth — the more varied and altogether more en- 
joyable the whole will be. So that our field is all the 
earth, and the time is all eternity; with God bidding us 
to become possessed with a passion for truth and knowl- 
edge of His impartial love, which will be limited only by 
our desire and ability to receive it; all teaching us in most 
unmistakable language that our domains are boundless. 



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EVOLUTION OF ANIMAL LIFE. 
Man and His Society and Religion. 

All forms of animal life, including that of mankind, 
prior to the dominion of our intellect, was evolved by 
the two ruling factors of brute force and mother love. 
We do not know, never can know, how many millions of 
years it took to evolve animal life from the primal mother 
cell to the complex animal from which mankind evolved. 
But we do know that the religion of mother love preced- 
ed that of the brute egoism of the male, and that they 
were both essential factors in the cosmic spirit; God's de- 
cree of animal evolution. 

We do not know, never can know, how many more 
millions of years have transpired since mankind assumed 
an erect position and commenced to evolve their front 
feet into hands, wereby they acquired their intellectual 
faculties automatically as they used their hands to clear 
their path of obstructions, ward of other animals, and feed 
and provide shelter etc. But this we do know: that if 
mother-love, her supreme decree from God, had not been 
more powerful than the male's excess zeal for animal per- 
fection, shown in his desire to eat or kill every male in 
sight, even his own offspring, we would not be here. We 
do know that if mother-love had not protected — at any 
and all sacrifices — the most favored of her male off- 
spring, as well as the females, that mother love and human 
sympathy, the cosmic spirit of God on earth would not 
exist today; and just here we want to add, if the males 
had not found it to be their greatest enjoyment in life to 
engage in deadly combat, for that female (mother) love, 
we might not have such glorious, valiant warriors to battle 



20 THE "PRODUCERS" RELIGION IS THE KEY 

for our freedom and to insure that mother-love and hu- 
man sympathy shall prevail. 

We do not know how long it has been since the 
strongest men combined their superior brute-strength with 
their superior intellect and employed them both to enslave 
their weaker brother by his fears and prayers to the frown- 
ing elements, e. g., the thunder and lightning. But 
this we do know, that right then and there super- 
natural religion and all its gods and all its divine rights of 
personal salvation etc., was born. And this we also know, 
that since that first prayer was seized upon and used as a 
club to keep the weak in subjection and slavery, gods 
and laws have been manufactured in advance, even 
as now, ad libitum and used advalorem ad nauseam 
to evolve, sustain and maintain the power of inhu- 
man greed along with the religion, i. e., the ways and 
means that have been employed to sustain and maintain 
the power of these enslaving gods and laws; and the 
power and authority necessary to enforce compliance to 
these gods and laws, embodied in the priests, who were — 
then even as now — always ready and willing to "crook 
the pregnant hinges of the knee where thrift might follow 
fawning." 

And from the time we meet man and his society com- 
ing up out of the dark and distant unrecorded past till the 
present day; every torture and indignity to patient in- 
dustrious manhood, every horrible degradation to trusting 
virtuous womanhood, and every brutal henious cruelty 
to innocent childhod : that these soulless, inhuman, brutal, 
lustful monsters and their convenient resourceful super- 
natural gods could device, have been visited with fiend- 
ish relish upon the child, the woman and the man; to 



TO THE ECONOMIC FREEDOM OF WOMEN 21 

maintain the right to rob the "Producers," even to de- 
struction, while they lived and debauched in luxury on 
the spoils — worse and more of it; have practiced tortures 
and indignities indiscribable to break the noble, valient 
spirit of untold millions of men; to heniously degrade the 
person of untold millions of trusting loving resourceful 
women, and destroy the lives of untold millions of inno- 
cent, pratling, helpless children, in efforts to keep the 
"Producers" in slavery to their insane ungodly greed, and 
more horrible still, try to convince them that it was more 
honorable and respectable — even as now — to be a rob- 
bing troglodyte with a soul of trilobite proportions, than 
an honest, sympathetic, industrious God cell, producing 
for the good of all. 

"Producers:" the past is God's! The present and 
future are ours. And we are still more elaborately em- 
ploying that first prayer, to be allowed to use and enjoy 
our product. A united vote is all we need. 

THE EARLY CHRISTIANS AND PERSECUTIONS. 

The religion of the early Christians was economic. 
Supporting that contention we quote from 2nd v. Wards 
Ancient Lowly p. 59: "Thus from very early times we 
find distinct traces of two religions and two sets of gods. 
One favoring and the other distructive of human liberty, 
and two distinctly defined systems of political economy. 
One peaceful, industrious, lowly, under the tutilage of 
Saturn, Nemesis, Dionysus, Minerva, the other warlike ar- 
rogant, pretentions, living in blood-thirst and destruc- 
tion ." Again on p. 349: 

At the time of Christ* s stay on earth, great numbers 
of unions existed. As abundantly shown, they embraced 



22 THE "PRODUCERS" RELIGION IS THE KEY 

nearly all the trades and professions of the population, 
who were obliged to earn a living with labor. An old 
law legalized their career. Not until recently has the fact 
come to light that the early Christians nestled and settled 
among them. A prodigious effort has been made to con- 
ceal this fact, but it has at last leaked out, thanks to these 
recent discoveries, which bring to view the otherwise un- 
written history of the Salonic dispensation." 

Again on p. 442: "Claudius assumed the imperial er- 
mine, A. D. 47, and immedately began his persecutions 
of the Christians, then treated as Jews, the word Chris- 
tianity being at that early date unknown. They were Na- 
zerenes." 

Again from a foot not on page 686, we quote: Con- 
stantine was ambitious, unscrupulous and cruel, and that 
it was through his cunning plots, even to the extent of mur- 
dering his own family, that, he, step by step, rose to the 
full control of the empire. Gosimus remarks that "Con- 
the pagan priesthood for forgiveness and absolution, 
stantine's crimes were so great that when he applied to 
those clericals refused to grant forgiveness. This forced 
him to make his supplications to the Christian priests 
who forgave him took him in with all his load of sins 
and henceforward Christianity was adopted. We may 
perhaps state that this was the real base of the Con- 
stantinian deal which at once legalized and paganized 
Christianity. Again on the same page above: "Con- 
stantine stands as the pivot, over which, for ages, the two 
great parallel schemes of religion balanced and still bal- 
ances. Nearly all the noble, original,, sentiment human- 
ity, economical democracy and socialism was wiped out, 
under him and his immediate predecessor. The great 



TO THE ECONOMIC FREEDOM OF WOMEN 23 

plan of salvation of the true ancient lowly endorsed, com- 
pleted and promulgated by the carpenter of Nazareth 
and accepted, furthered, sheltered and protected for cen- 
turies by the countless labor unions of Solon was through 
these two monarchs, stricken as if with the palsy, never to 
rise again, unless the second coming is this which we today 
behold rolling up in the dusty whirlwnids of our modern 
labor movement with its ultimatum once more fixed as 
of old, in economic freedom.** 

DEIFICATION. 

Jesus, the lowly Nazarene*s supernatural power and 
deification was a growth conceded by recorders of Primi- 
tive Christianity. Adin Ballou on p. 43 says: "These 
strong influences sufficiently predisposed Christians of the 
second century, and especially the leading minds of the 
general church to corrupt the pure primitive doctrine con- 
cerning the relationship of Jesus Christ to God the Father. 
And this they gradually did, by defying his natural per- 
son as really a pro-existent divine being somehow mysteri- 
ously incarnated in humanity. They did not begin by 
claiming anything like co-equality for him with God the 
Father, nor co-eternity. This was not achieved till the 
Council of Nice, A. D. 325, and even then scarcely pre- 
vailed.** On p. 5 7 he adds: "The conflict was great- 
ly intensified by the church having just become united 
with the state. Power, place and wealth awaited the 
party that should be pronounced orthodox. Deposition, 
banishment, poverty, and perhaps death, awaited the 
vanquished. Constantine could not quiet the angry com- 
batants by suasion. He therefore called a general council 
at Nice in Bithynia A. D. 325. It was almost a mob of 



24 THE "PRODUCERS" RELIGION IS THE KEY 

bishops, or rather two mobs struggling for ascendency, 
victory trembled in the balance, and the emperor threw 
his sceptre on the side of the divinitarions. The Araians 
were crushed, and disposed, or suffered banishment. The 
deity of Christ became the sword — sustained orthodoxy 
of church and state " 

Constantine and his aids were much exercised as to 
how they might pacify these economic Christians even to 
the extent of seeing visions: which revealed a plan of 
expediency that he thought would keep them safe as a 
source of revenue, so figuratively speaking they selected 
one of the many virgin-born saviors extant in the savior- 
dom lore of the time for a substitute for Jesus as Paul 
formally did and elected him the Son of God, the Christ 
and crucified him on the cross. And around His head 
they placed a crown of thorns to symbolize his willing 
sacrifices and sufferings for His people, and around that 
thorn-crowned head they wove a pathetic garland glean- 
ed from the sweet memories of the oft-told aultruistic 
stories of these early Christians concerning their former 
leader, Jesus, the lowly Nazerene. 

To make sure that this new-made saviour could be 
used for their conquering, exploiting ends, they gave to 
him another character — and made him to proclaim: "I 
came not to bring peace but a sword," which they placed 
within His hand, and bid Him: "By this conquer" or ex- 
tirpate all "Producers" who will not labor expressly to 
sustain Divine, Princely parasites. And kings, robbers 
and priestcraft were safe on the backs of the "Producers'* 
again with a supernatural religion, that permitted every 
inhuman, robbing egoist to make his own gods ready to 



TO THE ECONOMIC FREEDOM OF WOMEN 25 

do his bidding; of capitalizing fear and ignorance for 
greed — even as now. 

This mythical Christian plan of salvation was not 
concocted to save souls, but to make sure of fleecing the 
"Producers," peacable or otherwise, and it surely has 
done duty well, and is still a most potent factor in our 
midst. 

CHRISTIANITY NOT THE RELIGION OF JESUS. 

There is a divine, overruling, universal providence for 
all — which is a compelling, uplifting force, the religion of 
the universe. 

Man as far back as his doings can be traced, has 
made gods of that which he could not understand. And 
all down thru the ages a few greedy egoists have been 
ever ready to use the gods of fear as a means of enslav- 
ing the * 'Producers,* * that they might luxuriate in idleness. 
Those same gods of fear that were the manes, or ghosts 
of our savage murdering conquesting ancestors, evolved 
into the Jehovah "of Moses, of Joshua, of Gideon, of 
David, of the Maccabees*' of Constantine and many 
later ones, and the Kaiser, who seems to have inherited 
the strength of all the others. 

In the United States the same society destroying per- 
sonal, selfish gods, are at work and are being protected 
by the Christianity established by Constantine, not Jesus. 
A statement well sustained by Franklin H. Giddings, 
"Professor of Sociology and the History of Civilization/' 
in Columbia University in "The Christmas Message" as 
published in the Independent Magazine, Dec. 22, 1917, 
excerpts of which we quote wherein he says: 



26 THE "PRODUCERS" RELIGION IS THE KEY 

4 'The Christianity that has failed is the bastard gos- 
pel of the salvation of the unfit. 

No message of hope, no offer of help is ever pro- 
claimed that is not instantly seized upon by the foolish 
and the wicked to further evil ends and save themselves 
from merited disaster. The Christian gospel of salvation 
of sinners from sin was early perverted into a salvation 
for the sinning a moral impossibility. It is this perversion 
which has industriously been promulgated by pestiferous 
revilists, and which, I fear, is the only Christianity that 
half or more of the total membership of the Christian 
churches have ever grasped." 

" Here, then is what the Christian offer of sal- 
vation turns out to be when it is examined with intellectual 
honesty. Salvation is promised to those only, who, in- 
spired by the person and example of Christ, feel faith 
in such person and example, repent of sin and thence- 
forth cease to do evil, and learn to do well. 

"This is a religion, I repeat, of the salvation of the 
fit. It holds out no promise of any kind to evildoers of 
any description who do not cease to be evildoers. On the 
contrary, it expressly warns them of impending damna- 
tion. The wheat and the tares will be left to grow to- 
gether until the harvest, but then the wheat will be gar- 
nered and the tares will be burned M 

" In the language of Darwinian evolution, the 

'fit' are those that are adapted to the environment in 
which they attempt to live. The adapted survive, the 
non-adapted perish. Civilized human society is a moral 
environment which calls for intelligence, comprehension, 
sympathy and good faith. It demands that contracts and 
treaties shall be more than scraps of paper. It demands 



TO THE ECONOMIC FREEDOM OP WOMEN 27 

that men and women shall earn their bread by useful in- 
dustry and not live as parasites upon others. It demands 
that they shall deal honestly with one another. It de- 
mands that they shall help one another and mitigate 
misery. It commands them to abstain from cruelty and 
from acts of brutality and destruction. Like the unper- 
verted Christian gospel it admonishes us to cease to do 
evil and learn to do well as the sole condition of salva- 
tion " 

It is the especial business of Mr. Franklin H. Giddings, 
the author of the above, to know all that history has to 
teach us about Jesus and the early Christians, and he 
knows — as all ought to — that very little is really known 
concerning Jesus and the early Christians in His time. 
That the man Jesus, if he existed, came into the world 
as all other men have, and that he was human and never 
anything else, except in the human minds, is true and 
not doubted by those who desired and sought the truth 
— the point we want to emphasize is this: He was of 
the * Producers' * and because he espoused their cause, 
and was against the established egoism of His time He 
was an infidel. As have been all others since His time, 
who, sincerely and wholly free from sinister motives, 
have set forth the truth as they honestly saw it. Till now 
the name infidel has become synoymas with truth, right- 
eousness and progress, and is being met with in all walks 
of life. 

We are really not bound to prove — whether Jesus 
lived or not, but we are bound to live according to His 
example. And instead of Christ and Him crucified and 
sanctified sin and salvation by belief without works, and 
its consequent ego-maniacism and resulting autocracy. 



L>S THE "PRODUCERS" RELIGION IS THE KEY 

We must now have Jesus and Him glorified as an ex- 
ample to live by. Around the humble birth, pathetic life 
and tragic death of Jesus. The poets of nearly all the 
nations engaged in this World war, have vied with each 
other in pathos of poetic garlands, which form a halo of 
moral aspiration high enough and a human love inspira- 
tion of sufficient potency, to lift all humanity to an al- 
truistic society like that which is being carried on by the 
God-cells in our bodily functions and mental faculties. 

The religion of Jesus was a striving after social bet- 
terments and our government is following his glorious 
example, which they are doing in a most commendable 
manner, and must and will continue to do so until the 
nation is applying religion in its true sphere: that of 
thinking, acting and working together to the utmost of 
its ability and capacity that the whole nation may be 
elevated to the greatest possible efficiency of manhood, 
and womanhood, and childhood, and economic industry, 
in order that we may win the war, and also establish ab- 
solute human justice, which will insure peace, happiness 
and an abiding, uplifting civilization after the war. 

Ascetism. 

A further effort, nee plus ultra was made in Constan- 
tine's time to subjugate the unsophisticated "Producers;" 
to the greed of kings and priests, by investing this mythi- 
cal crucified, Constantine defied, Christ with the power 
to forgive and repair vice and crime; reversing the inex- 
orable laws of nature, and degrading their evolution — the 
efforts of adaption being put forth by these "Producers'* 
to maintain that whch was favorable to their welfare — 
from the righteous, industrious, natural zeal of altruism 
to that of insane, fanatical asceticism, resulting in their 



TO THE ECONOMIC FREEDOM OF WOMEN 29 

indescribable demoralization and extremes of degrada- 
tion below the brute. 

Lecky in his History of Morals v. ii p. 107 says: "Pil- 
grims wandered among the deserts, collecting accounts 
of the miracles and austerities of the saints, which filled 
Christendom with admiration; and the strange bio- 
graphies which were thus formed, wild and grotesque as 
they are, enable us to realize very vividly the general 
features of the anchorite life which became the new ideal 
of the Christian world. 

"There is, perhaps, no phase in the moral history of 
mankind of a deeper or more painful interest than the 
ascetic epidemic. A hideous, sordid, emanciated maniac, 
without knowledge, without patriotism, without natural 
affection, passing his life in a long routine of useless and 
atrocious self-torture, and quailing before the ghastly 
phantoms of his delirious brain, had become the ideal of 
the nations which had known the writings of Plato and 
Cicero and the lives of Socrates and Cato. For about two 
centuries, the hideous maceration of the body was re- 
garded as the highest proof of excellence." 

Again in referring to patriotism of government, on 
p. 141 Mr. Lecky says: "Their home and their interests 
were in another world, and, provided only they were 
unmolested in their worship, they avowed with frankness 
long after the empire had become Christian, that it was 
a matter of indifference to them under what rule they 

lived " 

"Producers" Especially the Mothers and Sisters. 

Before me lies a 25c phamplet issued by B. F. Under- 
wood "The Influence of Christianity on civilization." 
"The Bible" a volumn of nearly 500 pages of criticisms 



30 THE "PRODUCERS" RELIGION IS THE KEY 

of eminent biblical scholars. "The Christ** a sister vol- 
umn of nearly 600 pages of criticisms of eminent Christ- 
ian scholars: both elaborations are the efforts of John E. 
Remsburg, to give to the world the truth about the Christ- 
ian and other Bibles; the man Jesus and the Christ myth. 
All three of these works may be had of "The Truth Seek- 
er,** 62 Vesey Street, N. Y. C. or of the Crucible Pub. Co., 
1 330 First Ave., Seattle, for $2.75. I have no interest in 
the circulation of these books other than that I would 
dearly love to see the people at home in comfort, shoot 
at wrongs with their conscience; that we may accomplish 
that just "Freedom for All Forever,'* that America's mil- 
lions of glorious sons are staking their all to win. If we 
do not do our utmost we ought to be where they could 
shoot us too, for we would most certainly deserve it. If 
I could afford it I would gladly put these three books 
within reach of every family of "Producers** in America. 
They should be in every library, so should the Truth Seek- 
er. They should be in our schools, but they are not, why? 
Because they would set the minds free by revealing the 
truth which is always as evident to the senses as sunshine 
and never in danger. It is lies that require protecting and 
nourishing, the unwilling but helpless agents of the greed 
responsible for keeping the truth out of our free public 
libraries and our Nation's free public schools could not 
then brazenly make a long, worn to the bone, perambu- 
lating prayer and wind up: "all for Christ's sake" — 
which has always meant for the greedy exploiter's sake 
— because he would not have the nerve; the world's 
tragedy bunco game would be exposed and the "jig 
would be off** and these 182,943 ministers and bishops 
of (most of them) darkness and coroding discords, would 



TO THE ECONOMIC FREEDM OF WOMEN 31 

soon have to go to work, and the well on to $500,000,000 
required for the Churches general expenses and their sup- 
port could go to win the war. And capital and other 
divine rights of national greed would loose their grip on 
the theological colleges. And the local shining lights of 
greed who keep these human beings — who are absolutely 
the victims of circumstances owing to greed biased teach- 
ing in the colleges and the recognized influence of the 
kept press and its keepers at home — from telling the truth 
would be recognized as the vicious enemies of progress 
and all Kaisers on their own account. 

I have not battled with this — would' s greatest — social 
problem for over half a century and still be so narrow 
as to blame these ministers for their past, — absolutely no! 

But that does not releive me from shooting with my 
conscience straight at these misguided men who would 
continue to expound a religion that could not exist shorn 
of its autocracy and ego maniacism. 

Injustice to Women. 

Injustice to women: "The teachings of the Bible have 
been used to keep women in a subordinate position." 

'There is not a more cruel chapter in history,' says 
Dr. Moncure D. Conway, 'than that which records the 
arrest of Christianity regarding women. In Germany it 
found woman participating in the legislative assembly, 
and sharing the interests and councils of man, and drove 
her out and way Even more fatal was the over- 
throw of woman's position in Rome. Read the terrible 
facts as stated by Gibbon, by Millman and Sir Henry 
Maine; read and ponder them, and you will see the tre- 
mendous wrong that Christianity did to woman. 
"Even the priceless virtue of chastity, in the name of law 



32 THE "PRODUCERS" RELIGION IS THE KEY 

and in the name of the Bible, was trampled under 
foot M 

Even now! "In this country," while the most illiterate 
and depraved man is clothed with the rights of a sov- 
ereign. Many of our "noblest women are held in a 
subordinate position, and from the Bible, priests and pol- 
iticians have procured the chains that still hold them in 
subjection." 

"Refering to the Bible, America's greatest women, 
Elizabeth Cady Stonton, says: "I know of no other books 
that so fully teach the subjection of and degradation of 
women." (Eighty years and more) 

From "The Bible," by John E. Remsburg, ps. 407-8. 

"An Italian bishop of the tenth century said if he 
were to enforce the canons against unchaste people ad- 
ministering the rites of the church, that duty would be 
reserved for boys alone, and if he were to extend the 
cannons against b d's they too would be ex- 
cluded vice was common especially among the 

clergy. Indeed, Moshiem, Hallam, Lecky and other im- 
partial writers declare that no adequate idea can be 
formed of the depravity of the times of which I write (see 
Lecky's Morals, vol. ii, p. 348-355") 

From "The Bible" by Remsburg we again quote p. 
409: "Brave Helen Gardener says:" 'Every injustice that 
has ever been fastened upon women in a Christian coun- 
try has been authorized by the Bible and riveted and 
perpetuated by the pulpit/ (Men, women and Gods, 
page 14). 

'Women are indebted today for their emancipation 
from a position of hopeless degradation, not to their re- 
ligion nor to Jehovah, but to the justice and honor of the 



TO THE ECONOMIC FREEDOM OF WOMEN 33 

men who have defied his commandments. That she does 
not crouch today where St. Paul tried to bind her, she 
owes to the men who were grand and brave enough to 
ignore St. Paul, and rise superior to his God.* (I bid 
page 30.) 

"George W. Foote, of England, says it will yet be the 
proud boast of women that she never contributed a line 
to the Bible." 

Mother and the Woman. 

When the "Producers" take the advice of their friends 
the scientists and replace all supernatural religion — the 
egoistic, autocratic insanity of personal gods and chosen 
peoples, that offers a false nature reversing impossible 
salvation for the few at the expense of the many enslaved 
— e. g., Moses and his chosen people of the Bible and the 
Kaiser and his "Gott" and those aiding him in the world's 
greatest tragedy cf insanity which is the direct result of 
the precepts of the Bible in the 31 chap of Numbers the 
book of Joshua and many other passages, and of Paul 
and Martin Luther's teachings. 

When the mothers and all women are rescued from 
the insane, inhuman, indescribable degradation in which 
supernatural religion, especially that of Christianity and 
its Bible, has placed her and restored her to her natural 
sphere, that of Queen of all sentient life on our Earth and 
God's viceroy, and as God is the cosmic spirit, the Altru- 
ism, the religion which is the evolution of the Universe, 
just so is mother and woman the cosmic spirit, the Altru- 
ism, the religion which is the evolution of human life, and 
the race, whose stability and renewal is to her of higher 
value than her own life and all else. "The female is the 



34 THE "PRODUCERS" RELIGION IS THE KEY 

spirit form of life; primitive, unchanging, lasting; she rep- 
resents the conservative element of life. 

The male born later into the world not wholly recon- 
ciled to him represents the progressive element 

of life. 

At first small, insignificent, only half necessary to the 
continuence of the species, in some cases a mere parasite 
on the female. (From "Life and Love** by Margaret 
Warner Morley. ) 

When * 'mother** and the woman are recognized and 
conceded to be the cosmic spirit; the Altruism, the re- 
ligion — which is the evolution of humanity — and that she 
is the source — to her as "Mother** of all animal life, in- 
cluding mankind, a special gift from God — the fountain 
from which all human love and ethics have come. 

"Mother** who as the primal cell, by the process of 
evolution, slightly assisted later by the male has produced 
complex mankind. Her, who in the savage age, took 
part in the chase when her hungry young stalked her for- 
ward, compelling her often to battle to the death with 
tooth and claw, that she might fullfil her God decreed 
purpose. Her upon whose shoulders, in the Barbarous 
Age, under Moses was shifted the sins of the world — 
and that at a time when people were worshiping a god- 
dess — and subjected to all the heinous indignities that 
man's resourceful, supernatural gods could divise, and 
in the Decalog of Moses (not of God) is classed as a chat- 
tel. 

Her who in the Middle Ages, under the direct influ- 
ence and full flush and flux of Christian (not those of 
Jesus) precepts Leeky says: "Woman was represented 
as the door of hell, as the mother of all human ills. She 



TO THE ECONOMIC FREEDOM OF WOMEN 35 

should be ashamed at the very thought that she was a 
woman. She should live in continual penance, on ac- 
count of the curses she has brought upon the world. She 
should be ashamed of her dress, for it is the memorial of 
her fall. She should be especially ashamed of her beauty, 

for it is the most potent instrument of the demon. 

Women were even forbidden by a provincial council, in 
the sixth century, on account of their impurity, to receive 
the Eucharist in their naked hands." 

"The badness of men;" a Jewish writer emphatically 
declared "is better than the goodness of women." — 
Hist, of Morals, vol. 11 ps. 337-8. 

Her, who now as the last prop of a fast decaying 
faith — that could not exist shorn of its egoism and auto- 
cracy — is the source of all its virtue which is wholly se- 
cular and palliative and as such a burden on society, and 
stands like a stone wall directly in the path of progress. 

Her, who when conceded her God ordained position 
in human society; that of the cosmic spirit and moral 
criterion — with absolute economic freedom to choose 
the father of her children, will become the Altruism, the 
Religion i. e. the evolution of society. She will no longer 
be the hewer of wood and drawer of water to a jugger- 
naut, that a few priests and preachers may — as victims 
of circumstances and not from choice — unwillingly con- 
tinue to sear the minds of their hearers and uphold the 
progress of the world. 

No!! A million times No!!! She will shatter the 
bonds of superstitions and break the unholy fetters in 
which the greed of egoistic man has chained her for 1,600 
years, and will no more, loathsomely and subserviently, 
reverance the stagnating and choatic prejudices of savage 



36 THE "PRODUCERS" RELIGION IS THE KEY 

creeds, but will burst forth with the joy and glee of water 
turned loose upon the hill side, and demand and receive 
the fullfilment of her God-given decree, that the utmost 
effort of the nation shall be administered to the mother 
and the child first, thereby seeking the kingdom of God 
in the only way possible, to which all things then may be 
added — that go toward peopling the earth with an altru- 
istic race of ever increasing physical, mental, moral and 
spiritual men and women. Now that our government — 
which is proving to be the most democratic any nation 
has ever had, and the grandest, most glorious, from the 
President down, the world has ever known — in their wis- 
dom are compelled by physiological and other sufficient 
reasons — which it is no part of this letter to explain— to 
send millions of the pick and flower of our most valuable 
and intrepid American manhood to risk their all for our 
freedom. And in addition must draw upon the present 
and future potency of the nations * 'Producers" for such 
vast treasure. It is surely time to take ourselves seriously, 
we who are left at home enjoying the freedom that has 
been paid for by millions of other heroic men and women 
of the past; it is surely no time to shy at wrongs at home 
or to mince our language in our efforts to encompass 
them, and it is not the intention of this letter to extenuate. 

The cosmic spirit we call God — the writer be- 
lieves has given us everything to enjoy life with, but ex- 
perience — the science of agreeing to agree — which it 
would be impossible for us to have only as we see we 
need it, and acquire it by evolution of the thot forces — 
just as we have evolved from the single cell to complex 
mankind — no other plan is even thinkable. 

Now my dear readers, especially the women; 
what I have been paving the way to say just here, 



TO THE ECONOMIC FREEDOM OP WOMEN 37 

anent the woman question, is this: If Christ could 
have prevented the greed of man (not woman) 
from visiting upon the woman such awful, hor- 
rible, damnable, henious, brutal, inhuman, soul de- 
stroying and physical crucifying lust; if He could have 
prevented it in the past; if He could now remove the 
foulist blot on America's society; if He could give food 
and comfort to the aged women of the Bleeker streets of 
New York and other cities; if He could make J. D. Rocke- 
feller, Jr., who prates about living a Christ life — and his 
father turn back to the city of New York — plus another 
80 million to the nation at large — the 20 million dol- 
lars he now exploits the Producers for each year, mostly 
women, on an investment of little more than that a few 
years ago (See "Pearson's Magazine," Sept., 1917); if 
He could prevent others who also have taken millions 
from New York City and other cities, that has for so many 
years been lowering the standard of our Nation's man- 
hood and falls most heavily on the woman, throwing her 
into the hands of male vultures in human form to com- 
mercialize; if He could prevent the women all over our 
fair land of more than plenty for all, many of whom, right 
now have sons in our armies — have spent their lives scrub- 
bing on their knees, our library floors and other public 
buildings in large cities — with men standing up sweeping 
ahead of them — to rear a family deserted by the father; 
if he could relieve the poor shivering thin-clad women 
and their half frozen, half starved children I have seen 
in most of the cities of America picking up little bits 
of coal on the railroad tracks that they might get a little 
bit warm; if he could prevent the awful horrible poverty 
I have seen in the cities in almost the whole length and 



38 THE "PRODUCERS" RELIGION IS THE KEY 

breadth of our nation, that devours all blessings, destroys 
all virture, enjenders all hatred, vice and crime, where it 
does not annihilate the "Producers" it calls for jails, poor- 
houses, and asylums, all of which the remaining "Pro- 
ducers** must in turn support a outrance. 

If this (mythiial to me) Christ of Constantine (not 
Jesus the Nazarene) could have prevented, and would 
not, all this injustice to woman and the "Producers.** I 
should want a billion times more power with which to 
resent and loathe Him, and would still want that power 
increased a billion fold that I might satisfactorily, with 
all the reinforced strength of my being, scorn and despise 
Him, and as long as I live I shall do all I can to overcome 
the causes responsible for the injustice to women and the 
"Producers;'* and to overcome the supernatural religion 
that lives by graciously pretending to pardon the ones 
that produce it, and its bible that so brazenly and unfeel- 
ingly sanctions it. The only Divine rights are God*s gift 
of life to mother and human evolution guided by mother 
love. 

"No society,** says Maine, which preserves any tinc- 
ture of Christian institutions is likely to restore to married 
woman the personal liberty conferred on them by the 
middle Roman law** (Ancient Law, p. 158.) 

The most painful and pungent truth — of the inhu- 
manity of the Bible and its gods — is its injustice to wo- 
men, and the one thing above all others that proves it is 
horribly human. 

Salvation 

We live move and have our being here by adaptation 
to our environment, the natural laws, which were in ex- 
istence prior to this life. If there is a conscious existence 



TO THE ECONOMIC FREEDOM OF WOMEN 39 

and a personal life beyond the grave — it will be just as 
absolutely dependent upon natural laws governing that 
life as is the case with this; and that were in existence 
prior to it, as was the case with this, such a claim cannot 
be questioned, and any other view is unthinkable. 

Putting these two facts together makes very plain an- 
other great fact: that all the prayers of all the peoples of 
the earth since man became possessed with intelect enuf 
to offer up the first to the frowning elements e. g., the 
lightning, thunder, wind etc., and all the supernatural re- 
ligious efforts of all their respective peoples added to all 
the millions of people who have been sacrificed to ap- 
pease the wrath of mans personal, tribal, and national 
greed or gods — as you prefer — reinforced by the Kaiser's 
— the most powerful the world has known; all this we 
claim — with all reason and the researches of science to 
support the claim — has not added to or taken from the 
natural laws which obviously must support that life if 
there is one. We are not sure that another life awaits us, 
but of this we are sure — those of us who have in defiance 
of all ostracism been over fifty years healing up the 
searing effects of thousands of years of ego-maniacism or 
supernatural religious preseipts — take your choice — that 
if there be one, the way to evolve the soul and prepare 
for it is — not via the multi soul-benumbing nature revers- 
ing creeds of supernatural religion, that has pretented to 
pardon sinners like the murdering lustful Constantine, 
who waited till he could not enjoy his sin, even as they 
do now, and was not worth saving, but it has been a 
splendid advertisment for the business — even as now. 
Did it restore those whom he had murdered and de- 
bauched? Does it restore the diseased blood of young 



40 THE "PRODUCERS" RELIGION IS THE KEY 

men, who, not having been taught, owing to lack of time 
between prayers and other wasted church duties — that 
God has given us a choice of living natural lives of en- 
joyment here if we learn how, or throwing ourselves away 
by indiscretions in youth by which these young men cor- 
rupt their blood, which will make of their lives and their 
wives and children a living hell of remorse especially so 
when they learn that washing souls by a miracle process 
with another man's blood for another world, that death 
only can inform us about, does not help to restore incur- 
able blood in this. 

The business of Christianity is a pretence of repair of 
the individual, while the nation's foundation is being un- 
dermined for lack of instruction to avoid, and scientific 
environment to prevent. And the awful tradegy is they 
encourage this ignorance. 

All social structures have been — not built up — but 
destroyed by teaching belief in place of science results 
e. g. indiscretions in sex-problems, disorganized incur- 
able blood, "Kallikak families all about us." 

Multiplying at twice the rate of the general population, 
see "The Kallikak Family" by Henry Her- 
bert Goddard, Ph. D. 

Christianity says I do not teach the science of in- 
dustrious natural evolution as exemplified by Jesus and 
the early Christians before Paul and Constantine, and as 
is now being illustrated by Henry Ford in his great in- 
dustrial plants, where he is actually increasing the hap- 
piness, the spiritual, mental, moral, and material welfare 
of his employees and their families, and in addition, the 
man power and efficiency, and the commercial output 
in volumne and value, all at the same time. Truly here 



TO THE ECONOMIC FREEDOM OP WOMEN 41 

is the only human religion inspired by the Cosmic Altru- 
ism of the Universe; truly are the "Advisors" in the 
"Department of Education" true ministers of the gospel 
of the "Kingdom of God," the human family. Truly are 
they developing souls by scientifically saving them in this 
world which axomatically fits them and saves them for 
the next. 

Supernatural religion, Christianity, says, I do NOT 
want America dotted with Halls of Science in which men- 
tal gladiators vie with each other in their efforts to in- 
terpret the altruism, the compelling, uplifting, and ever- 
unfolding wonders of God, whereby our nation may have 
a foundation of noble healthy industrious happy men and 
women renewing the nations foundation with ever increas- 
ing physical, mental and spiritual offspring, that will be 
equipped to mount to higher and ever higher knowledge 
of God's love and abundance ad infinitum. 

Supernatural religion, Christianity, says, this world is 
fine for us and our masters to whom (as the late Mr. 
Baer of one time coal fame said: "God in His infinite 
wisdom has given the control of the property interests of 
the country to certain capitalists who can be trusted to 
do all things well," so we graciously get their big money 
and confusedly and by threats of hell get the "Producers," 
so we should worry, we make sure of a good time here 
anyway. 

Christianity says: we are doing fine and if the "Pro- 
ducers" would only give us more money we would have 
sects without number as long as the "producers" would 
supply us with good food and fine raiment. 



42 THE "PRODUCERS" RELIGION IS THE KEY 

THE GOSPEL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION 
Twentieth Century Application 

Our aim will be: To establish, maintain and auto- 
matically renew after the war — as science leads the way — 
the most scientific, economical, moral and spiritual con- 
ditions that will permit and enable all boys and girls, af- 
ter being educated — in government schools— to produce 
by their own efforts and industry, while learning a trade 
or profession, and fully enjoying such efforts and in- 
creasing and perfecting their manhood and womanhood; 
an all sufficiency for themselves and an abundance with 
which to provide model homes and enable each to take 
unto themselves mates — which society will expect them 
to do at the proper time. 

National Municipal Hospital Groops: 

One or more scientifically equiped buildings in suffi- 
cient numbers located at the proper points thruout the 
nation, to receive all prospective mothers as soon as it is 
thot wise — by the district official — for her to be so taken 
care of — and attend them so they will receive every 
known aid in proper food and all else, during gestation 
and accouchement and as long thereafter as is thot neces- 
sary. Free to all mothers who must each and all be so 
cared for. 

Other necessary buildings for general hospital work, 
also medical and dental colleges all arranged as thot best 
by competent authorities. The fees for tuition to be justly 
arranged. 

The jurisdiction of the Federal Court should be en- 
larged to care for all divorce cases. 

Uncle Sam should get acquainted with this problem. 
And the abuse of civil law in our Nation as well. 



TO THE ECONOMIC FREEDOM OF WOMEN 43 

National Schools 

The government to provide the most up-to-date 
scientific school buildings in sufficient numbers, utilizing 
all now in existence, and provide for a National educa- 
tional system of the most scientific order — automatically 
following as science leads the way — that will be abso- 
lutely secular — yet enunciating the exact scientific find- 
ings about all bibles and all religions — to which every 
child in the U. S. A. will be compelled to attend during 
the whole of the common and high-school years that is 
decided upon. 

To arrange these school buildings so they will be 
suitable for municipal centers, with all suitable buildings 
for dancing, lectures and moving pictures. All abso- 
lutely free except the pictures and dancing which would 
be confined to upkeep and caretaking expense. 

In addition to these school centers, owned and con- 
trolled by the government; should be established Grand 
Municipal Centers in all towns and cities — owned by 
said cities and towns — sufficiently comprehensive and 
numerous to provide a variety of amusement and instruc- 
tive features to make it wholly unnecessary for our young 
peoples' pleasures to be commercialized and degraded 
into vice dens by vicious greed as is the case now. They 
should also include auditoriums and other features where 
the old and young may find amusement and instruction 
from childhood to old age. 

The government should by all means be the sole ex- 
hibitor of Moving Pictures, because it is the coming 
medium of education and has possibilities for social evo- 
lution beyond our wildest dreams. It takes in the whole 
realm of human evolution. 



4 4 THE "PRODUCERS" RELIGION IS THE KEY 

In the hands of the government, used to advance and 
co-ordinate, individual and collective efforts mutually 
centered on a National unit of progressive evolution, its 
field and possibilities are Infinite. 

If allowed to remain in the hands of greedy mon- 
opolists, the societies of the World will be at its beck and 
call. 

Many millions are now being wasted in advertising, 
and film speculation. 

Government to own and operate railways, telegraph, 
telephone, radio and cable systems, and express systems. 

Government to take over all banking business and 
facilities, and become the only and sole lender of the 
peoples' savings; all those having money to lend— may 
lend only to the government at say 4% for the first 
$100,000, 3% for the next $100,000 and so on. 

All those wanting to borrow would do so only from 
the government at a small advance. This would do won- 
ders to establish stability of prices and protect the "Pro- 
ducers" especially the farmer of produce from the farmer 
of profits (the banker). Every man or bank who de- 
pends upon buying money as cheap as possible and sell- 
ing it for all that can be got for it; is using the MAGIC- 
BUY- ALL invented for the "Producers'* freedom; to 
enslave him. 

Whereas, if the nation was the sole banker, the "Pro- 
ducers" savings would be used to benefit all alike. 
A Nation's Strength 

A nation's actual strength is: first its man-power, 
second its accumulated savings which are invested for the 
benefit of all its people. 

A nation's potential strength may be realized and 



TO THE ECONOMIC FREEDOM OF WOMEN 45 

made actual in proportion as its available capital may be 
quickly used to increase its production of essentials via an 
increase in man power and facilities for growing more 
food and inrceasing its output of manufactured products, 
which holds good in peace or war. Property is therefore 
sacred in its true sense, only when not used to enslave. 

No man can claim a right that he does not fully grant 
to all others, therefore no man has a right to misuse the 
MAGIC-BUY-ALL, we call money that was invented to 
advance civilization above the bartering savage. Ob- 
viously all could not scuttle the ship of state by increas- 
ing the power to enslave the producer. But that is what 
the money power thru the banks are doing. UNCLE 
SAM is the only one who has that right and then it will 
be used to enrich all the people — the nation. Intrinsic 
value would not be necessary for internal use. The gov- 
ernment would take care of all gold and do all foreign 
exchange business. 

Government to take over all accident, sick, old age 
and death policies, and widows' pension provisions, also 
all fire and life insurance, which the government could 
take care of at a small part of the present cost, and would 
receive the billions of quick capital that has been and is 
now used brutally and systematically to enslave the "Pro- 
ducers.** 

A National Single Tax Law to apply on both city 
property and farm land. 

The law for the city would include provision for tak- 
ing over sufficient of the town or city WAGE — which 
term I use in place of unearned increment — from those 
holding the community site values, to build all school 
buildings, pave all arterial streets, and for sinking funds 



46 THE "PRODUCERS" RELIGION IS THE KEY 

and interest charges on past bond issues except for utili- 
ties. 

The single tax law for farm lands should include pro- 
visions for a sliding scale of taxes whereby all land over 
a standard or model size farm, say as an illustration all 
those owning 100 acres, $1. per acre, 200 acres $2. per 
acre and so on, this to apply — idle or cultivated, which 
would turn loose large holdings and the tax ought to be 
made sufficient to prevent all capitalized farming as in 
Mexico and here at home. 

There should be a family on every 50 acres of tillable 
land in the U. S. and farming should in some way be 
made so enticing that the desire would be away from the 
cities. With money at a fixed interest in the hands of the 
government, and with from farmer to consumer estab- 
lished, with the banker and other profit farmers elimin- 
ated, the farmer would dictate the price and become the 
most independent citizen and recognized as the bulwark 
of the nation which he is. 

A scientific segregation of free individual family 
farming is the only and absolute foundation for a nation. 

Then by a scientific respective to zone cost system of 
aggregation and standardization. 

Sex Segregation in Manufacturing 

So far as possible of manufacturing; under govern- 
ment control with sex segregation, giving the woman 
full charge of the work suitable to her physical nature, 
and as far as possible of feminine and children's apparal 
and use, etc. 

Having made a thotful and observing study of the 
morality aspect of men in the capacity of foremen, hav- 
ing the say as to whether a woman or girl shall continue 



TO THE ECONOMIC FREEDOM OF WOMEN 47 

under him to receive the miserable pittence she is sup- 
posed to be happy and good with if she pleases him or 
be "fired" if she don't. I pronounce such a system a dis- 
grace to our civilization and emphatically say it should be 
abolished at any cost. And after the war this must be 
one of the first duties of the Nation to be set right. No 
people, no nation can possibly be greater than its care 
and respect for its MOTHERS and SISTERS, not some 
of them, but ALL. 

As manufacturing is the first stage of distribution, 
the government should controll it, monopolizing the sell- 
ing end. 

Owning the transportation etc., would eliminate all 
traveling salesmen and save the hundreds of millions that 
now goes for advertising. 

There seems no valid reason, from the no profit view 
of manufacturing, why the government should not do it 
all under the industrial army plan. We should be just as 
ready to overflow with praise to a constructive general 
as now to a destructive one, but in such a case our army 
of industry could be military at the same time. 

With everybody producing, plenty of time would be 
available for drilling etc., and with the production for 
use plan. All firement could be employed at some light 
manufacturing, and all others needing or desiring to work, 
the inmates of jails, asylums, penitentiaries, etc. 

All new inventions would be bought by the govern- 
ment at a commensurate value, and thus do away with 
all patent laws and fees. 

All mining and prospecting etc., should be encourag- 
ed, as in the case of farming, and be under government 
reward and control. 



48 THE "PRODUCERS" RELIGION IS THE KEY 

With every church in the U. S. turned into a Hall of 
Science, where the Woodrow Wilsons the Henry Fords, 
the Charley Schwabs, the Edisons, the Burbanks will vie 
with each other in portraying the arts and sciences, and 
every known scientific fact of achievement and prospec- 
tive may be unfolded by mental gladiators vieing with 
each other while enjoying the most exalted extacy the 
human soul is capable of — that of unfolding the wonders 
of God as expressed in His love, His altruism, to which 
there as neither metes nor bounds. 

Mankind is infinite on this earth in a mutual sense. 
God has imparted it to the mind by millions of years of 
experience, commencing with a few cells — -and on to the 
many billions of now. 

Nothing is impossible to us that is necessary to other 
millions of years of advancement. This is as true as the 
sun shines and the opportunity will only cease as the sun 
ceases to shine. So why worry "about the dead level of 
plenty" with such an inspiration. 

To insure this continued advancement we want a 
Government established SUPREME scientific college 
where every known and possible help will be installed 
to assist the brightest minds of our Nation — and our 
World if you choose — to fly to infinite heights of the 
imagination and then scientifically work up to them, 
which has been the source of all that we know and all 
that separates us from, and exalts us above the lower 
forms of life; in other words, God has by the power of 
thot given us this earth and all that therein is. He has 
reserved only the right to bestow upon us blessings be- 
yond our possible conception impartially and more than 
an abundance. Here we get a glimpse of the cosmic al~ 



TO THE ECONOMIC FREEDOM OF WOMEN 49 

truism. We may receive these blessings in an altruistic 
manner or by continuing our selfishness of the past; con- 
tinue our chaos and detruction. Now the question is, are 
we going to mutually agree and enjoy life? This ques- 
tion can only be answered by those people who have 
been, and are now, responsible for the two extremes that 
should not exist anywhere and most certainly not in a 
great new nation like America, and under Democratic 
government. 

Must Agree to Agree 
It is not the time to elaborate on an exposure of high 
finance via stock watering, but it is the time to correct it 
if the nation is not to follow Rome. President Wilson 
has somewhere said: "The banking system of the Nation 
doesn't need to be indicted, it is convicted." 

If we cannot overcome the Wall Street habit of stack- 
ing the cards against the "Producers," we have not yet 
agreed to agree. 

THE VAST UNIVERSE 
And This Planet's Peoples 

The universe is so vast that our most expert astrono- 
mers — with their most highly trained imaginations, in 
possession of the most powerful appliances for extending 
their vision into the unknown — are utterly helpless to 
even commence to imagine its immensity even tho they 
can tell us about stars that are so distant that it takes light 
traveling at the rate of 186,000 miles per second 2,000 
years to reach this planet. 

Our importance in the universe is about that of a toy 
balloon covered with microbes — with distant neighbors 
hundreds of millions times larger and more important 



50 THE "PRODUCERS" RELIGION IS THE KEY 

than our marble of a planet — floating in endless space 
in all directions. 

And yet we have about 500,000 priests in Christen- 
dom 180,604 in the U. S. plus the hobnobing, pleasure 
loving bishop who would have us believe that they have 
been chosen by the cosmie spirit, the Altruism of this 
Universe to give us a pass to a life beyond this. 

Now, since treason to the king is dead, and some of 
our would-be dramatic preachers, are shouting to hell 
with the Kaiser (king) to which I say amen and again 
amen, and would add to hell with his gott, and all other 
gods of insane greed whether under the name of Chris- 
tianity or any other supernatural religion. 

This world charnel house of death and destruction 
ought to make everyone grown up in their minds and ar- 
rouse them as never before to the fact that there is some- 
thing wrong with the fundamentals of our organized so- 
ciety. Our scientists and all thotful people who have 
been our liberators have many times in the past told us 
that this king insanity and its twin offspring — the greedy 
exploiter and partner, the Christian religion, would de- 
stroy our present civilization if not overcome. 

Insane, human, brutal greed in some form has been 
the cause of all the misery, cruelty and wars since the 
race began. Because these wrongs have been in force so 
many years and so many precious lives have been sacri- 
ficed to enforce them, does not make them right now, no 
matter what name they go by. Because Moses and his 
chosen people did what is ascribed to them in the 31 
chap, of Numbers at the command of their Jehovah a 
long time ago does not make it right now. And we are 
giving the Kaiser — who is just an over-grown Moses — to 



TO THE ECONOMIC FREEDOM OP WOMEN 51 

fully understand this too. Constantine and his Pagan 
priest paganized the economic religion of the early Chris- 
tians — after they put him in power — and turned it into a 
gristmill to support priests and parasites, and which has 
from that act made of the Christian world for 1 600 years 
one long cruel history with blood on every page; but that 
does not make it virtuous because it has seen fit to destroy 
whole civilizations to make them believe they only had 
the rights of the earth. 

The wrong that Paul did when he, as a religious 
visioning conquester, smashed the early Christians in to a 
hundred warring sects can be measured by the millions 
that since that time have been its victims and by the sect 
distrust and enmity that is kept alive by these, as Lord 
Byson said: "Villionous sects who are tearing each other 
to peaces for the love of the Lord and the hatred of each 
other.*' But it does not make it right and is not the re- 
ligion of Jesus, but it is conquesting Christianity. 

Because Constantine cursed the Jews and forbid them 
to marry a Christian under pain of death does not make 
it right, and the wrong it has done can only be measured 
by the persecutions it has brought upon the Jews. Christ 
was the product of the fertile brain of Paul, sacrifice and 
all, Jesus was a man but the Jews did not crucify him be- 
cause they did not use that form of capitol punishment 
and the Romans crucified only slaves and criminals, and 
Jesus was neither of these, he was a political infidel. And 
if Jesus was crucified it has no significance, as millions of 
others were victims of that form of capitol punishment. 
However, none of it was done to save souls, it was a new 
plan of conquest, a new way of getting on the backs of 
the producers. 



52 THE "PRODUCERS" RELIGION IS THE KEY 

But that does not justify us in allowing these ego- 
maniacs to shout "you must believe that Christ died to 
save your souls or you will be damned." When we know 
as they know that they have either got to get money that 
way or in a less respectable one( altho it ought to be hon- 
est, when they shout, "we have got to preach Christ and 
Him crucified or close up our churches, " they mean just 
what they say, because the social gospel means a saving of 
the environment, a pointing out of the wrongs of the in- 
sane, nation destroying, greedy labor exploiters, the farm- 
ers of profits, the divine right, city sight value holders, and 
the land speculators, and the enslavers of children, girls, 
women and men. And their masters, the soulless greed 
will not stand for that. Which was just the reason Constan- 
tine and his aids crucified Christ in their minds and gave 
him a sword that was the Pagan way of dealing with 
slaves and was all he knew or wanted to know. 

And for 1 600 years Jesus in all His humble birth, 
pathetic life and tragic death, source of pathos has been 
held up to us in the left hand and the sword in their own 
right hand sharpened with the natrual desire for success 
and the denominational urge of the pleasure loving, hob- 
nobing bishops who wanted to earn the fat fees of their 
masters, the greedy, soulless, child and girl and other 
labor enslavors, and keep safe for more. 

And this has been going on for 1 600 years in all 
Christiandom and is going on in Germany — has been 
since Luther* s time. And now the Kaiser holds up the 
picture of Jesus to his soldiers with the inscription: "Lo! 
I am with you always," but even he has better sense than 
to put a sword in His right hand. The Kaiser believes 
every word of Luther's definition of atonment for sin. 



TO THE ECONOMIC FREEDOM OP WOMEN 53 

Martin Luther 

Martin Luther, in his "Table Talk," thus defines the 
position of the Protestant Church: "He that says the 
gospel requires works for salvation, I say flat and plain 
he is a liar!" "Every doer of the law and every moral 
worker is accursed, for he walketh in the presumption of 
his own righteousness." "If men only believe enough in 
Christ they may commit adultry and murder a thousand 
times a day without periling their salvation." Luther re- 
jected and denounced the book of James because it 
teaches the efficacy of good works, ("The Christ," John 
E. Remsburg). 

Language could not express a position more contra- 
wise to truth than Luther's declaration showing very plain- 
ly how unreliable and human the precepts of the bible are. 
Exactly the reverse is true, exactly the reverse is the social 
gospel of Jesus. 

This mythical crucified Christ of Paul and Constan- 
tine was fixed up expressly for conquesting and enslaving 
purposes, and surely has done duty well. Every man who 
gets up and shouts that you must believe that Christ died 
to save your soul is a menace to society; a climax egoist 
and the high spot of autocracy. And think of 182,843, 
(World Almanac, 1916) ministers, the most of whom 
(all that don't are excepted) are telling people this 
world's greatest human tradegy, lie, for sacred truth when 
God and all nature proclaims it a lie. If it were true it 
would be as evident to the senses as sunshine. It is lies 
that need nourishing and protecting. 

These various egoistic autocrats; Jehovah's most high, 
are holding forth in 235,000 untaxed churches and rep- 
resent 1 75 different creeds and nearly that much of a 



54 THE "PRODUCERS" RELIGION IS THE KEY 

variety of gods. More money, more sects, more enmity, 
less progress. 

"So many sects, so many creeds, 
So many paths that wind and wind, 
When just the art of being (honest) and kind 
Is all this sad world needs.*' 

Church property in the U. S. A. is of a value in excess 
of $1,500,000,000 which filches $22,500,000 (See 
"Exempting the Church," by James F. Morten, Jr.) from 
the public treasury and the "Producers" pay it all, the 
very poor the most, because they feel it most. And these 
same poor are as welcome in these churches as an empty 
collection plate. Here is Kaiser Autocracy with a ven- 
gence. 

"O judgement thou art fled to brutish beasts, 
And men have lost their reason!" 

The demand of churches for exemption from taxa- 
tion is a confession of imposters. (See Benjamin Frank- 
lin.) 

The Constitution of the American Republic guaran- 
tees religious freedom in an interdependent sense. And 
all exemptions of church property is a violation and in- 
fringement of the rights of the others and becomes a 
licence to abridge that religious freedom of others which 
it does and is autocratic and society corroding in the ex- 
treme; Kaiserism. 

We must have a religious commission composed of 
scientific men to tell us just what right these 1 75 seething 



TO THE ECONOMIC FREEDOM OF WOMEN 55 

autocracies have — in our secular democracy — to make the 
poor pay their taxes and what right they have to send 
10,048 missionaries to foreign countries and employ a 
little of the $19,264,977 they filch from us to educate 
and give medical attention, feed and put nice white 
dresses on Chinese and other foreign children when we 
have so many undernourished and nearly naked children 
at home, and think of the expensive process of paying all 
the salaries and the keep of the missionaries. See foot 

note on p. 24 of "Re-Education " by George E. 

Barton. (Having no reference to the war.) Now truly, 
is it because these denominations love these children 
more than our own that they go to such a trouble to feed 
them — and so many hungry ones of our own at home? 
Is it to save their souls? 

Sanctified Greed 

Plain sanctified greed and strife and conquest; ex- 
actly the same spirit the Kaiser is showing only he is more 
insane than any others, but many others broke loose be- 
fore. And it has been one long collusion of selfish, soul- 
less, insane greed — it was the same before it was called 
Christianity. 

Nearly all of these ministers know that it is a cold 
blooded game of graft. But its so respectable, and then, 
what are they to do? They are all largely the victims 
of circumstances. And look at what a transparent fraud 
the whole thing is. The universalists believe that we 
will all be saved — Amen — the Unitarians teach that 
Jesus was a glorious infidel — which He was — and then 
the orthedox they believe with the Kaiser and Luther, no 
matter what you do so long as you "believe enuf in 
Christ/ ' Could insanity go farther? And the Jews who 



56 THE "PRODUCERS" RELIGION IS THE KEY 

have every reason to despise the very name of Christ, 
because they would not believe He was God and were 
slain in millions on that account. 

Dr. Watson, of Scotland, gives frank expression to 
a fact of which his fellow clergymen are folly cognizant, 
but which they are loth to admit. He says: "The great, 
and the wise, and the mighty, are not with us. These 
men — the master minds — the imperial leaders among 
men, are outside our most Christian church." 

"The ignorant suppose that the intelligent accept the 
Bible, because the intelligent, dependent in a large degree 
upon the ignorant, and knowing that of all passions re- 
ligious prejudice and hatred are the worse, do not care to 
arouse their antagonism by any unnecessary avowal of 
their disbelief. This is especially true of men in public 
life. But these men think, and to their intellectual friends 
they talk." 

In his "History of the Bible," Bronson C. Keeler 
says: "The only men distinguished for their learning, who 
now believe it to be the inspired word of God, are the 
men who are either directly or indirectly, making a living 
out of it. Do these learned divines themselves believe it? 
Nearly every intelligent clergyman entertains and confi- 
dentially expresses opinions regarding the Bible which he 
dare not proclaim from the pulpit. But master and slave 
are alike growing weary — the master of his duplicity, the 
slave of his burden. Emanicipation for both is approach- 
ing. Today the clergy smile when they meet; some day 
they will laugh outright; this stupendeous farce will be 
ended, and man will be free." John E. Remsburg, "The 
Bible," ps. 458-59. 



TO THE ECONOMIC FREEDOM OP WOMEN 57 

Collusion of Greed 

The God cell Altruocracy that so faithfully maintains 
our physical and mental existence ought to be an incen- 
tive for us to throw aside all race enmity and religious 
prejudice. When we recognize that it has all been foster- 
ed by man to advance his greedy ends. There will never 
be any peace in the world while deception and lies are 
made sacred to protect souless selfishness. There surely 
can be no wisdom in continuing such madness. If only a 
war such as now enthralls us can make us realize that race 
enmity and religious traditions and prejudices are our 
own tools which we have fashioned to enslave us; if all 
nations and sects must be on the battle front contending 
together to overcome insane human greed, as are our 
valiant American liberators and their Allies — before they 
can meet on the natural human level of mother love and 
human rights and sympathy! We have indeed drifted 
afar from the Cosmic Altru Urge!!! And just here we 
get a glimpse of what these 500,000 priests and preachers 
are doing for us; just here we can see how far apart we 
are. Are we going to get together peacably — wealthy 
Kaisers — men and women of America think about this. 
It will depend upon you. We all ought to see the folly 
of trying to create cosmos with so many people doing 
their utmost to increase and perputate chaos, especially 
when we recognize that it is just human greed and all an 
evolution of the savage brute in nature's garb with long 
arms and protruding stomach. 

The Bible upholds all of this race hatred and sect 
prejudice in its worst form, not in the interest of and for 
the "Producers," but in the interest of inhuman greed. 

The worship of kings by enslaving and destroying the 



68 THE "PRODUCERS" RELIGION IS THE KEY 

"Producers" is the paramount casus belli for the Bible's 
existence, Constantine and his "ignorant," "fanatical," 
and "immoral" counselors made sure of that. Now we 
see that the King business is not the way to human evolu- 
tion and is a relic of the cave-man. We might go a little 
farther and take away its sanction for Lieing- — Cheating — 
Stealing — Murder — War — Human Sacrifices — Cannibal- 
ism — Witchcraft — Slavery — Polygamy — Adultry — Ob- 
scenity — Intemperance — Vagrancy — Ignorance — Injus- 
tice to Women — Unkindness to Children — Cruelty to 
Animals — Tyranny — Intolerance. And then most of 
what is left, we get via mother love and human sympathy 
evolved from it, which is as old as animal life. 

We do not need an inspired bible to do good, that is 
"mothers" gift from God direct to the cell and then to 
animal life and then humanity; the only direct gift — all 
else has been experience. 

The only ones who need to have the Bible inspired are 
those who want to continue the cave brute's methods, 
keep the laws in force that were made by teoglodyte men. 

"In 1822 the Royalities of Europe drew up the secret 
treaty of verona, Article 3 of that treaty said: "Con- 
vinced that the principles of religion contribute most pow- 
erfully to keep nations in that state of passive obedience 
which they owe to their princes, they proposed to support 
the different religions and thanked the Pope for what he 
had done and asked his continued 'co-operation in their 
views of SUBJUGATING THE NATIONS' " from "The 
Crucible," Seattle, March, 1916 or '17. 

Henry C. Vedder in his "Gospel of Jesus and the 
Problems of Democracy," on p. 36, says: "Our 'World' 
is organized evil, and Christians are so far from having 



TO THE ECONOMIC FREEDOM OF WOMEN 59 

renounced that, that most of them are busily engaged at 
this moment in extending and completing this evil or- 
ganization." 

Again on p. 39 he says: "Honored Christian philan- 
thropists get their money for the endowment of universi- 
ties and charities from the blood and bones of their 
brothers; lovely and cultured Christian women derive 
their incomes on which their womanhood is nourished 
from the tears and groans of their sisters, and from the 
forced labor of little children." Again p. 46: "The most 
distressing element of the situation is the lack of sympathy 
with the workers that is evident among the clergy with 
exceptions few and rare, they may always be counted on 
the side with the exploiting class. 

In the strike of the silkworkers in Paterson, New 
Jersey, in the summer of 1913 the ministers of that city 
were arrayed in solid phalanx on the side of the employ- 
ers. Not one voice was raised in behalf of the workers. 
Not even was a protest made against the anarchic lawless- 
ness of police and local courts. And this is typical; it 
happens whenever and wherever there is a clash between 
labor and capital. The attitude of the clergy can be ex- 
plained only on the ground of their economic dependence 
upon the privileged classes, they are the hirelings of 
capitalism, and to do them justice they earn their wages. 
As a plain business proposition, the Christian churches of 
America could not be maintained today without the gifts 
of men who are daily exploiting their brothers. In fact 
they are so maintained " 

"From the first century to the twentieth — from Paul 
to Leo — these Bible teachings have dominated the 



60 THE "PRODUCERS" RELIGION IS THE KEY 

Christian world. Of the early Christians Fathers, Lecky 
writes: 

'The teaching of the early Fathers on the subject is 
perfectly unanimous and unequivocal. .Without a single 
exception, all who touched upon the subject pronounced 
active resistence to the established authorities to be un- 
der all circumsances sinful.' (Rationalism in Europe, 
vol. II, page 136) " 

"This has been the chief cause of Christian triumph 
and Christian supremacy. It has secured for the church 
the adherence and support of every tyrant in Christen- 
dom. Thomas Jefferson truly says: "In every country 
and in every age the priest has been hostile to liberty; he 
is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses 
in return for protection to his own." 

Writing of his country and his country's church, 
Macaulay says: "The Church of England continued to 
be, for more than 150 years, the servile handmaid of 
monarchy, the steady enemy of public liberty. The di- 
vine right of kings and the duty of passively obeying all 
their commands were her favorite tenents. She held these 
tenents firmly through times of oppression, persecution, 
and licentiousness, while law was trampled down, while 
judgement was perverted, while the people were eaten as 
though they were bread!" (Essays, vol. I, p. 60) John 
E. Remsburg, "The Bible," p. 417-18. 

Christianity Destructive 

There could not be a more destructive religion than 
Christianity, because instead of inspiring up with knowl- 
edge — the only path to progress and race evolution — it 
degrades by keeping its adherents in coroding chaos 
which to accomplish it — has covered the earth with the 



TO THE ECONOMIC FREEDOM OF WOMEN 61 

bones of its torured victims. True religion is knowledge 
that exalts us to higher and better ways of comuning with 
God; the Cosmic Spirit. A good religious teacher would 
teach social science and would earn his way. And the 
field for such teachers is unlimited. 

Christianity is not the social religion of Jesus, it is an 
organized effort to plunder, with no compensating return, 
but on the other hand, as history amply shows, is the 
most dangerous insanity possible to the human race. And 
is plain human greed run amuck: Hense the Kaiser wants 
the earth for a playground for his chosen people, and the 
other peoples to be their servants. 

This is why Supernatural religion could never be 
trusted with state control; it is plain plunder among the 
gods of man and they grow in proportion to their plunder. 

All sects are but the evolution of some fellow's selfish 
greed, who thot he had as much right to live by praying 
in fine raiment as anyone else. As many more could be 
dug up out of the Jew's double-acting pandora box and 
not in the least exhaust the supply; and we would have 
them if we would support any more. The most of what 
we have agree upon one point, and on that they came 
together like the ' 4 p a P er on the wall," which is, that the 
people must be kept ignorant. Of course they know that 
to believe that, what the God of the Universe and all His 
laws absolutely proclaim is a lie; is the truth because they 
say it is — a person must have his mind deformed like a 
Chinese woman's foot and that must commence in the 
child to have the best results, 



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CHRIST AND HIM CRUCIFIED 
A Gross Material Religion 

There could not be a more gross material or less up- 
lifting spiritual religion than that of Christ and Him cru- 
cified; because it lives wholly on the "Producers" in a 
false position; because it pretends to be preaching the re- 
ligion of Jesus and Him glorified as an ethical example— 
which is the science of human evolution; which means 
that no salvation for sin is possible — all sin is death — 
when it is actually teaching that it can reverse nature, re- 
verse the plan of evolution to which we owe our existence; 
resistence is life, non-resistence is death, nothing to re- 
sist life, impossible. 

In his new book of 1917 issue "A Theology for the 
Social Gospel," Walter Rauschenbusch on p. 50, says: 
"Sin is essentially selfishness." That definition is more 
in harmony with the social gospel than with any indi- 
vidualistic type of religion. The sinful mind, then is the 
unsocial and anti-social mind. 

To find the climax of sin we must not linger over a 
man who swears, or sneers at religion, or denies the 
mystery of the Trinity; but put our hands on social 
groups who have turned the patrimoney of a nation into 
the private property of a small class, or have left the 
peasant laborers cowed, degraded, demoralized, and 
without rights in the land. When we find such a history, 
or in present-day life, we shall know we have struck real 

rebellion against God on the higher levels of sin M 

Again on p. 53. 

"This proposition gives a solemn and terrible im- 
portance to the fact that theology has failed to cherish 



TO THE ECONOMIC FREEDOM OF WOMEN 63 

and conserve for humanity the doctrine of the Kingdom 
of God. Christ died for it. Theology has allowed it to 
lead a decrepit, bed-ridden and senile existence in the 

museum of antiquities which we call eschatology " 

Our Religion 

There is but one true religion for this life: Human 
love and sympathy, it must extend into the next — if there 
is one, because it is a gift of God to "MOTHERS" 
who will resupply the world as long as life shall last. 

There is but one occupation for man: to produce 
food and strength by labor, in order to labor for others. 

Mothers and sisters: You are going to become eco- 
nomically free or be further reduced to the cruel greed 
of man and his more cruel supernatural gods by the re- 
ligion of Christ and Him crucified, which as in the past 
can be depended upon to supply him with gods to do 
what he is ashamed to be responsible for himself. It 
was built for kings and has served them well and should 
die with them. It could not live without your help, 
you may continue your support and continue as the slave 
of inhuman greed or you may forsake the destroying re- 
ligion of kings, which has trampled you in the dust for 
1,600 years; and rise superior to its gods and estab- 
lish the religion of Jesus (who was never known as a 
Christian) which is the brotherhood of man, guided by 
the cosmic urge expressed thru mother love and human 
sympathy. 

"Producer's" men and women: All violence is back- 
steps, all peaceful methods denotes progress. In units 
you are the prey of your own obstructions. United the 
WORLD and all that therein is is yours, to whom it 
rightfully belongs. Will you cast the unnatural inhuman 



64 THE "PRODUCERS" RELIGION IS THE KEY 

chains of race and creed prejudices in which the greed 
of kings and their craven priests have bound you, and 
assert your birthright as a brotherhood of all men; will 
you withdraw your support from all other institutions 
which are all partial autocracies in a milder form and 
palliative with $2 wasted where $1 is used to allay se- 
lected material and is destructive in principle because 
rejecting the great increasing body of the nations poor as 
all others have — which leaves the nations foundation 
slowly but surely crumbling before the different but 
always blighting onslaughts of man's inhuman grada- 
tions.. 

"Producers," men and women: Organize and es- 
tablish the "Producers'* religion, have your own burial 
service at once, later making it national, become true 
soldiers of freedom and the world is yours. 




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